Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.